60% oppose Cosmo's Moon/Mars mission

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/us_space_mars_poll

Three-fifths of Americans oppose Bush's mission to moon, Mars

WASHINGTON (AFP) - More than three-fifths of Americans oppose President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s proposal to return to the moon and eventually put a human on Mars, according to a poll.

His plan to spend billions of dollars to manned mission to the moon and eventually to Mars drew opposition from 61 percent of the 1,003 adults surveyed January 14-15.

Even among members of Bush's own Republican party, 48 percent opposed the plan against the 42 percent who supported it.

About nine percent of the people questioned in the Time/CNN poll said they would spend billions of dollars on space exploration. Some 40 percent they would rather improve education, 27 percent would balance the federal budget, and 13 percent would clean up the environment. Only seven percent said they would enlarge the military.

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1. 80% favor the Moon/Mars mission ...

as long as it is AWOL that goes.

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